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Ok let's explore this scenario then. If you write a poem you could imitate, in this scenario I think imitation would be writing a bad poem or a practice poem. Do you agree that a part of the process of getting better at writing is to just write a lot of stuff to test out different options, even though much of it can be of pretty poor quality?
The equivalent of stealing in this scenario is when you have enough experience writing that you can use your own words to write a great poem. In this sense a great poem is something that is unique to you. It might be similar to other poetry or it might be different, but you managed to make a familiar concept your own or you came up with a new concept.
And the concepts you break down need not be other poems. It can be something entirely different. Like some people make poems with mythological themes or it can be something from your emotional experience or it could be something in nature. In all these cases there is some kind of source, what you are doing when you are writing is just breaking down input of sources and creating a new output, but the new output is sort of like a frankensteins monster, right?
The equivalent of stealing in this scenario is when you have enough experience writing that you can use your own words to write a great poem. In this sense a great poem is something that is unique to you. It might be similar to other poetry or it might be different, but you managed to make a familiar concept your own or you came up with a new concept.
And the concepts you break down need not be other poems. It can be something entirely different. Like some people make poems with mythological themes or it can be something from your emotional experience or it could be something in nature. In all these cases there is some kind of source, what you are doing when you are writing is just breaking down input of sources and creating a new output, but the new output is sort of like a frankensteins monster, right?